"Two Neils for the price of one"

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 27th August 2020 (19:45 - 21:30)

Venue: Virtual Meeting

A“Two Neils for the Price of One” night, with two short talks one after the other. The first ( ~ 25 mins ) is called “Total Addiction” – you can guess what that’s about! Obviously preaching to the choir for some of you guys,"The Lure of Eclipses"   but hopefully still entertaining.

The second ( ~ 20 mins ) is called “Way Back When…”; it equates the distances of stars and other objects with historical events when the light left them.

Speaker: Neil Haggath

Neil Haggath, graduated from the University of Leeds, England, in 1983, with an honours degree in Physics with Astrophysics. A software engineer by profession,

he has a lifelong interest in astronomy and spaceflight. Born in 1961, just a few months after Yuri Gagarin’s flight, so it’s fair to say that he “grew up with the Space Age”, in the exciting times of the early Space Race and the Apollo programme. The resultant fascination with spaceflight has never left him.

He's been an amateur astronomer since as early an age as he can remember and a member of Cleveland and Darlington Astronomical Society since 1981. He is very proud to be a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, having been elected to that honour in 1993.

6 times Astromind Champion - and now regular question master. Which was killed 5 years ago

A veteran of 6 total eclipse expeditions,4 successful.